“We don´t read and write poetry because it is cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering… these are noble pursuits to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love… these are what we stay alive for.”     (Professor Keating in Dead Poets´ Society) 

 

“To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else.”

“We turn not older with the years, but newer every day,”  (Emily Dickinson)

–These words about the passage of time offer a point of view in which instead of just aging as the years go by, we live in a constant change. (Sofía González)

“Happiness must be shared if one has a soulmate.” (Lord Byron)

–Sharing happiness with another person is better. (Miriam Prendes)

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” (Shakespeare)

-I sincerely love this line for the fact that Shakespeare shows that for loving someone you do not have to focus on his appearance. The fact that makes you fall in love with that person is his personality or his way of seeing life” (Andrea Rubio)

“In fortunate moments we seem on the verge of saying what we think we believe;

but even the honest eye will blink,” (W. H. Auden)

–Even in our best moments, we, the people, can´t be honest or be real with us or with our friends” (Iker Jiménez)

“What can be explained is not poetry.” (W. B. Yeats)

–Poetry is something that just simply arises without explanation, a bunch of feelings written on a piece of paper.” (Alba Belver)

“Parting is all we need of heaven,

  and all we need of hell.” (Emily Dickinson)

–This is part of a poem which explores feelings of profound pain after the loss of someone. With these words I feel that I have to take advantage of life and spend more time with my family and friends before it is late. (Alba Suárez) 

“If in these thoughts my contempt scares me, I think of you happily,

and then my consolation, like a lark on the edge of the day, rises of the dark world.” (Shakespeare)

–Although the author see defects in him and in his thoughts, when he thinks of that girl, those thoughts disappear. (Samuel Fernández)

“Do not gentle into that good night.” (Dylan Thomas)

–We don´t have to trust the night. The night (the sleep of death) is dark and scares us. (Alba Rodríguez)